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Billie Holiday - The Best of Billie Holiday: The Master Takes And Singles [Recorded 1935-1942, 4CD Box Set] (2008) Music

Posted by gribovar at April 21, 2024

Billie Holiday - The Best of Billie Holiday: The Master Takes And Singles [Recorded 1935-1942, 4CD Box Set] (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 633 MB | Covers - 13 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sony BMG (88697301262)

It's fitting that singer Billie Holiday began the most celebrated part of her career with Columbia in 1933, when the country was in the throes of the depression, and ended it in 1942, when the world was gripped by war. Her anguished delivery fit in perfectly with the times. As she projected the torments of her life through music, she gave us an escape from our own troubles, by reminding us of how bad life could get. Regardless, Holiday's sublime Columbia recordings, which originally appeared on the Brunswick, Vocalion and Okeh labels, are among the true treasures of jazz. The complete recordings were released a few years ago in a mammoth box set. This four CD collection pares the material down considerably, although the producers have not just taken the cream of the crop…

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Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2007) Music

Posted by gribovar at March 23, 2021

This DVD presents most of Billie Holiday’s filmed performances, taken from TV shows filmed between 1950 and 1959. Performance footage of Billie Holiday may admittedly be scant, but this issue compiles into a single release song cuts from some of Holiday's live filmed performances that are still extant. Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit video Concerts from which the compilation draws include: an August 19, 1950 gig with Count Basie and his orchestra, an August 13, 1956 set with pianist Corky Hale and his trio; a July 10, 1958 set, filmed in Newark, in which Holiday is backed up by tenor saxophonist Georgie Auld, bassist Vinnie Burke, pianist Mal Waldron and others; and a November 1958 Parisian set where Holiday is accompanied by Waldron and bassist Michel Gaudry…

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Billie Holiday - Singin' Her Greatest Songs (2007) Music

Posted by fimdomundo at Dec. 15, 2008

Billie Holiday - Singin' Her Greatest Songs (2007)
EAC(WAV)+CUE+LOG+Scans | 368Mb

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. Almost fifty years after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the decades-long tradition of song plugging in two by refusing to compromise her artistry for either the song or the band. She made clear her debts to Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong (in her autobiography she admitted, "I always wanted Bessie's big sound and Pops' feeling"), but in truth her style was virtually her own, quite a shock in an age of interchangeable crooners and band singers.

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Billie Holiday – Lady In Autumn (Comp. 1991) (Verve) (2-CD) Music

Posted by janwal46 at Aug. 19, 2009

Billie Holiday – Lady In Autumn (Comp. 1991) (Verve) (2-CD)

Comp. 1991 | Jazz | FLAC+CUE+MQ-Covers(300Dpi) | NO LOGS | 329Mb+353Mb+2Mb

There is an on-going dispute between Holiday fans: is Billie Holiday more interesting at the beginning of her career, when her voice was at its best, or at the end of her career, when her interpretive skills were at their finest? My preference is for the latter, and LADY IN AUTUMN offers a truly fine sampling of later Billie Holiday recordings.
Even at its youthful best, Billie Holiday's distinctive, very quirky voice was never noted for any of the qualities we usually applaud in great singers: Holiday's range, power, and breath support were always more than a little ify. But Holiday showed a remarkable facility for shaping her voice much as sculptor might, and she transformed her vocal defects into an astonishing personal idiom that has never failed to mix musical delight with raw emotional power. And this ability was at its height toward the end of her career.
It is true, however, that Holiday's later recordings are an acquired taste, and listeners who are new to her unique stylings may be put off by the vocal roughness of her later work. But for those who have already listened to an enjoyed her earlier work, Billie Holiday's LADY IN AUTUMN will be a revelation.

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Billie Holiday - The Essential Billie Holiday (2002) Music

Posted by TmanHome at June 20, 2016

Billie Holiday - The Essential Billie Holiday (2002)
Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Blues | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 184 min | 438 MB
Label: Soho | Rel: 2002

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the decades-long tradition of song plugging in two by refusing to compromise her artistry for either the song or the band. She made clear her debts to Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong (in her autobiography she admitted, "I always wanted Bessie's big sound and Pops' feeling"), but in truth her style was virtually her own, quite a shock in an age of interchangeable crooners and band singers.

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VA - Jazz Greats Vol. 1 (2003) Music

Posted by SuniR at Sept. 7, 2016

In this compilation collected ones of the greatest jazz artists of 20th century: Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald. Jazz Greats Vol. 1 contains 20 tracks, 6 songs from each artist. Also includes the song "My Sweet Hunk O-Trash" (L. Armstrong & B. Holiday) and "Dream a Little Dream of Me" Louis Armstrong with Ella Fitzgerald.

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Billie Holiday - The Very Best Of Billie Holiday (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at Jan. 9, 2021

Billie Holiday - The Very Best Of Billie Holiday (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 05:14:39 | 2.74 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever.

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Billie Holiday - The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol 9 (1991) [REPOST] Music

Posted by Ibiza at March 20, 2011

Billie Holiday - The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol 9
Jazz vocal | mp3 320 Kbps | 124 MB
CBS Records Inc. 1991

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Lara Downes - A Billie Holiday Songbook (2015) Music

Posted by tomashass at March 11, 2015

Lara Downes - A Billie Holiday Songbook (2015)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 01:04:24 | 148 MB
Genre: Piano, Easy Listening | Label: Steinway and Sons

The title A Billie Holiday Songbook on this release by the unconventional American pianist Lara Downes may refer to that of George Gershwin's Song-Book for piano composed (or abstracted from his live improvisations) by George Gershwin in 1932. The Gershwin work is probably the nearest point of reference for this collection of piano arrangements of Billie Holiday's hit songs: the textures of most of the pieces are dense, and they depart considerably from the melodies of the originals.

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Billie Holiday - This Is Billie Holiday (2015) Music

Posted by tomashass at April 28, 2015

Billie Holiday - This Is Billie Holiday (2015)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 02:16:28 | 313 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | Label: Universal / Decca

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